Storage Unification and Abstraction

Remote Data Acceleration

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Strong Community

Alluxio has attracted contributors from over 100 institutions, including Alibaba, Alluxio, Baidu, CMU, Google, IBM, Intel, NJU, Red Hat, UC Berkeley and Yahoo. The project is the storage layer of the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (BDAS) and also part of the Fedora distribution. If you'd like to join the community, or contribute to Alluxio, learn how to contribute.

Number of Contributors to Alluxio

Alluxio is the next project with roots in the AMPLab to have major impact. We see it playing a huge disruptive role in the evolution of the storage layer to handle the expanding range of big data use cases.

Wensong Zhang

CTO and Senior Research Fellow of Alibaba Cloud, founder of Linux Virtual Server

As the cloud computing business for Alibaba Group, the world’s leading e-commerce business, Alibaba manages many of the world’s largest data centers, including the largest big data cluster ever built in China. With Alluxio combined with AliCloud OSS as well as other AliCloud cloud service products, our customers can leverage the technology trends of hardware to run important jobs at the fastest performance. We have been contributing to the Alluxio open source community and believe that Alluxio will play a critical role in the future of big data infrastructure.

As a layer that abstracts away the differences of existing storage systems from the cluster computing frameworks such as Apache Spark and Hadoop MapReduce, Alluxio can enable the rapid evolution of the big data storage, similarly to the way the Internet Protocol (IP) has enabled the evolution of the Internet.

Michael Greene

Intel Vice President

Big data analytics is driving new requirements for distributed memory across clusters for real-time streaming, interactive queries, analytics and graph processing. We are excited to work with developer communities on Alluxio and to optimize Alluxio solutions on Intel platforms. Ultimately, this helps our customers create more innovative and high performance cloud and big data solutions.

James Peng

Baidu Chief Architect

As one of the largest Internet companies in the world, Baidu constantly faces the challenges of managing data at multi-petabyte scale. By adopting innovative technologies like Alluxio we are able to help our users extract meaningful and useful data almost instantly. Our deployment of an Alluxio cluster has already reached 1,000 workers, which is one of the largest Alluxio clusters in the world. The tiered storage of Alluxio has provided us great flexibility in managing data in large-scale. We are seeing an average 10-fold, and up to 30-fold performance improvement in supporting interactive query system and other types of workloads. This greatly improved the speed in making important business decisions.